Nato's Role

March 27, 2009

Earlier today I took a shot at our NATO allies for leaving us
to shoulder this burden, but in the post-AfPak speech presser the Pentagon's Michelle
Flourny said not so fast:

We have been engaging
extensively throughout the review with our allies and our partners and
we have made some very clear requests of them, not only in the military
sphere, but in the training and mentoring sphere, in the capacity
sphere on the civilian side, in terms of -- also in terms of financial
contributions. So we are making very specific asks; we've been in
consultation with them already and we expect many of those to be --
come to fruition over the next month or two.